Form in a form - possible ?

[Adam Benson]

Hi,

I have a really simple web page with c# code behind it. It displays news
headlines with related text. Click on the headline and you get the text that
goes with it.
I need to implement a search facility that will go through the entire
database and present the user with all the hits. When they click on a hit
the main page displays headline and text.
i.e.
********************** *******************************************

* * * *

* Search text * * *

* * * Headline *

* Result 1 * * *

* Result 2 * * Story *

* etc * * *

* etc * * Other details *

* * * *

* (Clicking on a * * (This works as always, *

* result here * * clicking on a result alters what's *

* alters what's * * displayed here. *

* displayed in * * But clicking within this window *

* the right hand * * works just the same as if the *

* form. * * search window wasn't there.) *

* When the user's * * *

* done with the * * *

* search they click * * *

* on X and this * * *

* disappears.) * * *

* * * *

********************** *******************************************

Most of the time the search window won't be there. I'd like it to appear
when the user clicks on a search button on the main page, and disappear when
the user's done with it.

Since the main window is already working and debugged I'd like to keep the 2
windows as independent of each other as possible - with the exception that
clicking on a result in the search window alters what's displayed in the
main window.



I'm sure it's possible, but I'm pretty new to aspnet stuff. If someone could
nudge me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.



Sorry if this is an issue that's already been dealt with, but to be honest I
wasn't too sure about what to search on.



Thank you muchly,



Adam.

 

[Marc Hoeppner]

Hi,

you don't have to use two forms in a single page. You could build a user
control (ASCX) that handles the search stuff and a another control for
showing the news and use these two on a page inside a single <form
runat=server...> tag pair. ASP.NET will automatically do the plumbing for
you so that if you have a search button in the first control and a
corresponding event, the user's click on that button will result in ASP.NET
calling your corresponding button event. You then can update the page anyway
you like and return it to the user.

Best regards,

Marc Höppner
NeoGeo

 

[Aemca]

you can't have a form in a form.
you can have multiple forms in a page ( just not the asp.net kind )

 

[Adam Benson]

Thanks, Marc and Aemca.

After going some way down the line suggested by Marc I sent a screen shot to
the customer and discovered they didn't want it like that. So I've had to
change it all ....

That's life ...

AB